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Sentence Composing for Middle School A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity

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ISBN-10: 0867094192

ISBN-13: 9780867094190

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Donald Killgallon

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With the first edition of his book, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this revised edition, Killgallon presents the same proven methodology but offers all-new writing exercises designed specifically for the middle school student. Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize the parsing of sentences, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composition process an enjoyable and challenging one. Killgallon teaches subliminally, nontechnically--the ways real writers compose their sentences, the…    
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List price: $37.13
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 10/21/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.638

Don Killgallon is the originator of the sentence-composing approach and author of numerous sentence-composing worktexts. He is the author or coauthor of Paragraphs for Middle School (2013), Paragraphs for High School (2012), Grammar for College Writing (2010), Story Grammar for Elementary School (2008), Grammar for High School (2007), Grammar for Middle School (2006), Sentence Composing for Elementary School (2000), Sentence Composing for High School (1998), Sentence Composing for College (1998), Sentence Composing for Middle School (1997), and Daily Sentence Composing (Great Source). He currently co-teaches with Jenny Killgallon in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins University,…    

Introduction: How Sentence Composing Works Sentence Unscrambling
Sentence Imitating
Sentence Combining
Sentence Expanding